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How to stay on the right side of comment moderation?

Sorry if this post is noise, but I posted a comment to the Max Payne 3 thread and it was held for moderation, and I want to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong. There were a couple of links in the comment, but they were just to other forum comments...

One of my comments got auto-moderated today, and it still hasn't been approved - even tho I included no links and no language that could even be potentially viewed as bad. I don't get it - I've posted maybe a dozen times in the past few years with no problems. Any suggestions on how to avoid this for the future? Definitely dampens the enthusiasm for posting - I was just answering another poster's direct request for tech support/feedback.

One of my comments got auto-moderated today, and it still hasn't been approved - even tho I included no links and no language that could even be potentially viewed as bad. I don't get it - I've posted maybe a dozen times in the past few years with no problems. Any suggestions on how to avoid this for the future? Definitely dampens the enthusiasm for posting - I was just answering another poster's direct request for tech support/feedback.

Post length may be a factor. I posted a reasonably long reply with no links or bad language in which is awaiting approval.

One of my comments got auto-moderated today, and it still hasn't been approved - even tho I included no links and no language that could even be potentially viewed as bad. I don't get it - I've posted maybe a dozen times in the past few years with no problems. Any suggestions on how to avoid this for the future? Definitely dampens the enthusiasm for posting - I was just answering another poster's direct request for tech support/feedback.

Thing about automodded posts is that it takes half of forever for them to be approved as the mods basically never check the forums.

NalanoH. Wildmoon
Director of the Friends of Nalano PAC
Attorney at Lawl
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen

I seem to be bumping up on this a little bit too lately :S, Does it have anything to do with word or character count? I type way too fast and ramble a lot, before I know it i'm scrolling through my comment, was wondering if it's that, or occasional swearing maybe? I'm a little guilty of that too :S.

Not sure if this is the right way to do this, but I don't want to cause unnecessary hassle.

I've just had a comment marked as spam, presumably because I kept editing it a few minutes after posting (this is a bad habit - I'm shit at proof reading in text boxes, but can do it quite well when reading a formatted post/comment). A link came up offering to let me connect my neural conbrainulatrix to the RPS micro-eye, that I might seek absolution in its slightly dehydrated gaze, but when I clicked on the link I got 404ed and a small dimensional rift obliterated my bin, the latter of which was actually rather convenient.

So um, anyway, what's the best way to get myself off the shitlist? Or is my life-alteringly magnificent comment lost forever? And ... hm. Well, I suppose it wouldn't be prudent to tell people how not to trip the spam filter, so never mind that bit.

Edit: Actually, belay those orders, space order belaying guy. I might be alright after all.

Last edited by sinister agent; 02-01-2013 at 02:18 AM.
Reason: See what I mean?

Yeah, editing comments, especially editing comments with links in/long comments has frequently been a path to tripping the spam-filter.
Presumably because some spam bots used to place legit-looking dummy comments, then edit in their nefarious links afterwards.

I've just managed to use the C-euphemism about seven times in describing my opinion of the characters in Watchmen, and it was the first post I've ever had fall foul of moderation. Not sure if it was the language or the criticism that got flagged up.